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Written by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right examines the viewpoint of Tea Party Movement (a movement within the Republican Party which advocates for lower overall...

The Shoe Horn Sonata is a play by Australian playwright John Misto, one of Australia's most eminent playwrights who has also worked as a script writer for Australian television, creating and writing the hit television series The Damnation of...

Written by Gillian Flynn of Gone Girl fame, Sharp Objects (Flynn's debut novel which was published in 2006) tells the story of a woman named Camille Preaker. After a while away and after a short spell at a psychiatric hospital, Preaker returns to...

Same Kind of Different as Me : A Modern Day Slave, and International Art Dealer and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together may well be a contender for the longest, and most unwieldy, book title of 2006; co-written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore,...

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes was written in 1977 by Canadian author Ellen Coer. At the time of the book’s publication, Coerr was already an established children’s author, having written “Twenty Five Dragons” and “The Legend of the Golden...

In 1977, Robyn Davidson set off for the west coast of Australia from her starting point at Alice Springs. Her companions were her dog, and family of four camels that consisted of a larger male named Dookie, a smaller male named Dub, a wild female...

Naguib Mahfouz has written over one hundred short stories during his career, sixteen of which are published together in one volume, with his most famous allegorical work, Half a Day, also takes on the mantle of title.

Half a Day is an...

Marieke Nijkamp's book This Is Where It Ends (published in 2016) is certainly an interesting and unique book. The book takes place over the course of only 54 minutes and goes minute-by-minute through one students quest for revenge as they begin to...

Boys & Sex written by Peggy Orenstein is about exactly what the title hints: Boys and Sex. After writing her book; Girls & Sex she found the trail of writing from the other point of view. The book opens up a dialogue about boys, their...

Written by Nobel Prize in Economics Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) which summarizes Kahneman's work over several decades first in cognitive bias, prospect theory, and finally, his work on happiness and what it means to be happy....

Alice Pung's memoir Unpolished Gem (originally published in 2006) is certainly an interesting book. It tells the story of Pung and her family as they fled from Cambodia (which was enveloped in Civil War and genocide) and went to Australia. The...

Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10 (published in 2016) tells the story of a journalist named Lo Blacklock who is given an assignment many journalists can only dream of -- a week on a luxury cruise that has only a few people on it. When she first...

Regarded as one of the best memoirs ever about World War II, E.B. Sledge's With the Old Breed (published in 1981, over 35 years after he fought in the Pacific). Sledge began to write the memoir in 1944 based off the notes he took during battle. It...

Written by English author and poet Thomas Hardy, "A Wife in London" is Hardy's bleak and dreary anti-war poem crafted two months after the start of the bloody Second Boer War (1899 through 1902). Hardy, a Brit, was alarmed with his country's...

Best known for his poems about the Central Coast of California, Robinson Jeffers poetic career spanned over six decades, from the 1890's until his death in 1965. The peak of his career, however, was from 1920s through the 1930s. Among his most...

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring debuted on the ABC television network on February 16, 1971, as their Movie of the Week. It was a movie made specifically for television, and told the story of two young women, sisters Denise and Susie Miller, who...

There are twelve characters in Carol Shields' collection of short stories and the carnival that they are all dressing up for is a metaphor for life. Each of the characters lives an illusory life and they tend to wear or carry things that tell the...

Irish author Edna O'Brien originally intended her first novel, The Country Girls to be a trilogy; the novel, first published as one book with three distinct parts, was first published as a single volume in 1986, but had been published more than...

The Vita Nova is the first work attributed to Dante. It is a prosimeter (a genre that combines prose sections and verse compositions) that contains 31 lyrics and has a narrative framework of 42 chapters.

The work has been in circulation since the...

Molly's Game (2017) tells the true story of a woman named Molly Bloom who went from world-class Olympic level skier to illegal poker game organizer after a devastating injury in a qualifying event for the 2002 Winter Olympics. As her game grows...

H Is for Hawk (published in 2014), is author Helen Macdonald's memoir. Set over a period of a year, Macdonald chronicles the time she spent training a northern goshawk after the death of her father, whom she loved dearly (her father, by the way,...

Edith Mary Pargeter (born in 1913, died in 1995) was an English writer, especially known for historical fiction as well as her murder mysteries. Through her popular historical crime series featuring a Benedictine monk in the 12th century, Pargeter...

Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (released in 1951) tells the story of two strangers who initially meet on a train headed to Washington D.C. One man, Bruno, is a charismatic and charming psychopath; the other, Guy, is a tennis player. Bruno...

Written by actor and playwright Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class (1977) examines a family tragedy. Set in a farmhouse in the Western United States, follows an interesting family. Although they have enough to eat, they don't have enough to...